Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Motor Skill, Free Throw, Mental Chronometry

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2000A/B
• Professor: Vincent Liardi

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Skill classification: some skills require different sizes of primary muscles, larger muscle groups are used to achieve gross motor skills (walking, jumping, small muscles are used more for control and precision, especially hand-eye coordination. Usually require repetitive movements: examples, discrete (dart throwing, sip of coffee, flicking a light switch, free throw, serial (playing the piano, pumping gas, dance, continuous (running, swimming, cycling) Action preparation: hick"s law: a law of human performance stating that reaction time will increase as the number of stimulus-response choices increases. You can see this law graphed below: can reach a total saturation point; not just locked into one thing. As we do multiple things, as we add tasks, if its all from the central resource, the quality of the tasks will suffer: attention and cell phone use, http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=_bqfkrwdfz0 *** multiple questions on the exam *** watch.